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Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] java.net.InetAddress
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Michael Koch |
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Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] java.net.InetAddress |
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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:55:19 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 13 October 2004 15:07, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 13:42, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> >>I was thinking about IPv6 addresses, wouldn't they go wrong with
> >>your code?
> >
> > Ah, you are right. Note that GNU classpath has nearly no IPv6
> > support. I want to look into this soon. The version in libgcj has
> > some more IPv6 support. I dont know yet how complete/functional
> > it is. This needs testing. I would vote to get IPv4 correct for
> > now/first.
> >
> > Note that your solution might work for IPv6 but does not have to.
>
> Michael, you may want to check out Kaffe's IPv6 code for
> InetAddress (& pure java DNSJava integration) from Tim Stack,
> Guilhem & Ito. Afaik it works well for IPv6. [1] I don't know what
> Tim's status is wrt to FSF paperwork, though.
I've added a FIXME comment for now and commited it for now. I also
filed a Classpath bug about missing IPv6 support in GNU classpath to
better track this issue.
Michael
Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] java.net.InetAddress, Dalibor Topic, 2004/10/13